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Squatting Supermarkets: Shoptivism Narrations

Loretta Borrelli
Telling the other side of the story is the goal that Squatting Supermarkets is aiming at, an installation, a performance, a work of net art, some short stories (and one could use many more words to describe it), a coproduction FakePress / Art is Open Source, presented for the first time in November 2009 during the Piemonte Share Festival. It won the Special Project Award at this same festival and the Green Award for '0' impact technology of the Environmental Park in Turin.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 54, May 2010

Evan Roth: Graffiti Taxonomy. Writing Between Research & Documentation

Claudio Musso
If it is true that since the beginning of this phenomenon numerous photographers and video makers, have tried to slow down the extinction of Writiing, it is also true that their tentatives were limited. This is probably what pushed Evan Roth to create a new method, which offered graffiti artists to archive and store their work and their tags.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 54, May 2010

Donkijote By Cristian Bettini. The Sustainable Slowness Of Being

Barbara Sansone
Once upon a time there was a man who was travelling with a donkey. With them was also a GPS, a solar panel, a PC with a modem and a video camera. The donkey's steps guided the man through nature - steps that were very different from those that men have taken since they have been walking through cities. The donkey was called Minuto, and the Italian Cristian Bettini used him as a guide and as a metronome for his journey through an artistic project (Donkijote - third chapter of a complex project that started off as Lasino.org, and then continued as Donkeypedia) which allowed him to discover the fascinating Asturias region in Spain with his feet firmly on the ground.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 53, April 2010

The Influencers 2010: Art, Action, Disobedience And Alchemy

Barbara Sansone
Heroes? Not really, according to them. They do what we all could do, what we all should maybe do: to denounce, inform, express ourselves, find our spaces, make our voice being heard (especially when who should be representing us, does not actually do it at all) and yet defend freedom, enjoy ourselves, try to be fine and take charge of the consequences of our lifestyle over human kind and the environment. Without being afraid, without being submissive, get what is ours, in a creative way, in a cultuerd, artistic way.... READ MORE...
ActivismArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 52, March 2010

The artwork between technology and nature

Redazione Digicult
Aarhus University and the national art museum in Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, are organizing an international conference entitled The Artwork between Technology and Nature. The conference will take place at the museum in Copenhagen on 21-23 January 2010 and aims to raise questions and debate focused on art history and theory in continuation of the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, COP15.... READ MORE...
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Craftivism

Redazione Digicult
Craftivism is an Arnolfini/Relational contemporary art project that responds to the resurgent interest in craft as it relates to socially- engaged art practice. It involves fourteen projects developed by artists and collectives that work with craft-based traditions and activist practices, and who employ the tactics of 'craftivism' (combining crafting + activism) to question and disrupt the prevailing codes of mass consumerism.... READ MORE...
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Mediamatic Travel: Online Cultural Turism

Giulia Tiddens
The Mediamatic travel project, carried out by Mediamatic Bank, one of the most important cultural centers in Amsterdam and in Europe, is ready to turn the world of cultural tourism upside down. If you connect to the following website http://travel.mediamatic.net/, you can find an endless list of cities, spread all over the world, with which it is possible to interact following definitely innovative approaches.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 50, December 2009 / January 2010

Ahackitude

Redazione Digicult
AHAcktitude '09 is the second collective meeting for the community of the aha@ecn.org mailing list, one of the lists hosted by the historical independent server Isole Nella Rete (Islands in the Net), and at the core of the networking project AHA:Activism-Hacking-Artivism.... READ MORE...
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Reff/rewf. Short Chronicle Of A Contagion

Salvatore Iaconesi
For loyal readers of this magazine, REFF is not new: this symbol perhaps resonates in their ears like an echo family and it is plausible that they may know some or all the story behind it. Me ripercorriamola together in his milestones (1). REFF going to RomaeuropaFakeFactory. REFF is the fake version of (almost) namesake Romaeuropa Web Factory, a competition launched in January 2009 by Telecom Romaeuropa Foundation to support digital creativity.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 49, November 2009

I Have Nothing To Say. Emergency – Emergent Agency

Micha Cardenas
How do we deal with broken promises? How can artists work to enhance agency among participant audiences who are anonymous, migratory and in transition? Can the museum become a space for Habermasian democratic dialogue under a state of exception? These are some of the questions that guided the project Emergencia - Agencia Emergente // Emergency - Emergent Agency by the Lui Velazquez collective, which was part of the Proyecto Cívico: Diálogos e Interrogantes (PCDI) public programming developed by Bill Kelly Jr. as part of the Proyecto Civico show curated by Lucia Sanroman and Ruth Estevez, at the Centro Cultural de Tijuana (CECUT) in the fall of 2008.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 49, November 2009

International Forum on free culture and knowledge

Redazione Digicult
There is in motion the celebration of an International Forum on free culture and knowledge from October 29 to November 1st2009 at Barcelona. This is the opportunity to join under the same roof and from a critical perspective, the main organizations and active voices in the free culture and knowledge world; a meeting point to sit down, dance and work together setting common agendas, strategies and address disagreements.... READ MORE...
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The Leonor Annenberg Prize for art and social change

Redazione Digicult
Creative Time is pleased to announce the inception of a new, 25,000 USD award: The Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change, presented by Creative Time to an artist who has committed her/his life's work to social change in powerful and productive ways. The first recipient of the prize is The Yes Men, and it will be bestowed during the opening ceremony for The Creative Time Summit: Revolutions in Public Practice, on October 23 from 6 to 8pm in the historic Stephen A. Schwarzman building of the New York Public Library... READ MORE...
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